Tag: muni
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MuniMet.ro
Over the holidays I took my first real crack at “vibe coding” a project I’d wanted to build for a while: a webapp that lets you know if San Francisco’s Muni Metro subway is working or not. Using Claude Code, I had it build an image classifier and a script that scrapes the live snapshot…
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Ferry Building drone light show
This evening drones lit up the sky behind the Ferry Building along with projections on the building’s tower. All of this was part of a drone light show sponsored by something called Gamma for this year’s Tech Week. While there was no question this was an advertisement — the enormous QR codes were a dead…
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Inside San Francisco’s Cable Car Shop
Last week I was lucky enough to get a rare glimpse inside the workshop where the most worn out San Francisco cable cars are sent to be restored — if not rebuilt. This was part of a tour offered by Muni, San Francisco’s public transit agency, in conjunction with the non-profit Market Street Railway to…
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Previewing Muni’s new Central Subway
When I first moved to San Francisco there was a new surface-level light rail line under construction along the east side of the city: the T Third Street line. This would be the largest expansion on the Muni Metro transit network since it opened, serving a part of the city that was both underserved by…
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The Apple Maps screw up at WWDC 2021
When the initial release of Apple Maps was so botched it led to widespread mockery (and a hilarious video from The Onion) Apple opted to play the long game, slowly improving the Maps app with better data and numerous new features. Today at Apple’s virtual 2021 Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) they announced among many other…
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The Central Subway is here… on the web
Hot on the heels of my previous post about subway station plaques, it appears three new San Francisco subway stations are online: well, on the web, anyway. Today I was making my way to Muni Metro and happened to pull up SF Muni Central on my phone to see if I had any chance…
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Every single BART plaque I could find in San Francisco
“Always read the plaque” is the unofficial motto of one of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible. Following that advice, over the past months I’ve been tracking down every BART station plaque located within San Francisco as a scavenger hunt of sorts. Conventional wisdom tells us there are eight BART stations in San Francisco, so there…
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A ride on San Francisco’s boat tram
On Wednesday I mistakenly clicked on bookmark to streetcar.live, an online map displaying the current locations of each of San Francisco’s historic streetcars that are currently running. Before I had a chance to close the tab, I noticed something unusual: one of the Blackpool “boat trams” was running! I decided to take a long lunch…
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“Save Harvey Milk Plaza” written in dust
Yesterday while walking through Church Station I noticed the renovations there were winding down, and behind the semi-demolished storage area someone had written SaveHarveyMilkPlaza.org in the dust on the orange railing. This is a reaction to proposed changes at Castro Station, the next station outbound from Church. The plaza on the south side of the…
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Muni Metro updates its subway audio announcements
Recently Muni Metro has been undergoing somewhat of a renaissance, from the new light rail trains to the colorful real time information signs to the upcoming Central Subway. Another recent Muni Metro upgrade hasn’t made any headlines — the new automated voice announcements at the subway stations. Like the previous version of the announcements they…
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